The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 125
The old man got two sacks of money here, and plodded away homewards with these.
Who acts: old man · What happens: get, plod away · To what, where: two sacks, homewards
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 sacks | nummod |
| 6 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 money | case |
| 8 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sacks | nmod |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 sacks | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 plodded | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 plodded | cc |
| 12 | plodded | plod | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADP | _ | 12 plodded | compound:prt |
| 14 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 plodded | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 these | case |
| 16 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 homewards | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the old man | two sacks of money | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sack=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | plod away | past | the old man not said here | homewards | with these | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme homeward=Trajectory |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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